Salt cellar

Maker & role
Unknown, Maker
 Production date
circa 1860
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Object detail

Production place
Germany
Collection
Vaucluse House
Measurements
0 - Whole, H: 9.5 x W: 5 x L: 11cm (H: 95 x W: 50 x L: 110mm)
Production notes
Continental silver marks, probably German.
Credit line
Gift, through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, by Mrs Joan Wentworth Weekes, 2008
Vaucluse House Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
Salt cellar, circa 1860
Description
European silver gilt figural salt cellar of navette shape (originally part of at least one pair), in the form of an open coach (the vessel for the salt) led by a horse in harness and driven by a putto holding silver wire reins. The coach / vessel has a cast grotesque mask to the front and cast floral and foliate decoration to the sides and rear and is mounted on two wheels with six spokes in the form of stylised chevrons.

Vaucluse House is interpreted according to the evidence available for its ownership by William Charles and Sarah Wentworth and their family 1827-1910. At the core of the collection is a significant body of material provenanced to the Wentworth family. The salt cellar is part of a collection of items is related to dining, an important social history theme within the collection, donated by Mrs Joan Weekes, grand-daughter of William Charles and Sarah Wentworth’s son Fitzwilliam (1838-1915).
Accession number
V2008/3

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